The Second Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, announces a concert to raise funds to supplement the meager salary of a regiment of Confederate soldiers. As reported in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: Among the first who rushed to arms to repel the Yankees in their attempt to conquer Virginia, was a regiment of Kentuckians. They were…
An anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier, stationed in that state’s Camp Gatlin, writes to a Baptist newspaper, under the pen name of “Khan,” of his experience in camp this winter (such pseudonymous correspondence directed to public consumption is not uncommon during the war). Acknowledging that he and his fellow soldiers “are accused of forgetting the…
White southerners are defending African slavery by the Bible, sword, blood … and southern literature. The Civil War has brought added urgency to an ongoing southern effort to lend literary credibility to a society and culture based on African slavery. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder makes note of this scholarly effort on the part of…